[Anonymous]

[Free Lance]

Some people think so and I am rather inclined to agree…

http://cultsha.com/michael-o%e2%80%99leary-%e2%80%9cim-probably-just-an-obnoxious-little-bollocks-who-cares%e2%80%9d/

[Airpocket]

Surely, the question should now be “does everyone hate Michael O’ Leary”? :o)

1 user thanked author for this post.

dutchyankee

[DJ_London]

I don’t think anyone hates Michael O’Leary… I think people hate his Airline… What he has done is a good thing: he has made it possible for people to fly and see the world… The company and Michael to some extent are now focussed on money, money, money and how they can get more out of their passengers…! It will all end in tears one day…

[Airpocket]

Fair point but there is an element of twattishnes about O’Leary. And, the prophecy – “it will all end in tears” – could also apply to BA.

[DJ_London]

You also raise a good point about BA…

What BA needs to do is get their customer service and policies right to survive…

Lazy cabin crew, who are rude and arrogant coupled with stupid and out of date internal policies are driving customers away to other airlines such as Virgin Atlantic for Long-haul and BMI for short-haul,

When travelling with Virgin and BMI you know you get a consistent level of service, ticket flexibility, and above all else, a more farer and advantageous Frequent Flyer programme…

BA need to retire from the skies or make the right changes internally to keep their customers.

[Bunnahabhain]

Getting of the original track here, but BMI having a better FFP than BA? Just search through the relatively recent forum archives for all the aggro about its call centre and miles bookings, and the uncertainty over its future value (or existence) anyway. Even if you do manage to redeem your miles you can hardly get anywhere with BMI unless you want / need to go to the middle east or Ekaterinburg or whatever it is. No westerly flights to US / Caribbean any more (and they were from Manchester anyway), effectively nothing round western Europe, and a domestic network matching the admittedly pathetic one of BA – alas poor MME, LBA, JER (ok we’ll count them as domestic), BFS we knew them well.

Still open to ideas of what to do with my 40000+ BMI miles, I’m just amazed they still exist though it wouldn’t really matter much anyway if they expired. Maybe I could use them to buy a drink on board, before the inevitable comes and I have to pay £4 / €4 for 187.5ml of wine on BA too.

[DJ_London]

You could consider spending your BMI FFP miles with other airline partners via Star Alliance or with their Virgin Atlantic link-up. You could also spend them on hotels, too.

[Bunnahabhain]

Yeah but that means going via the dreaded BMI call centre for partner Star Alliance flights, and for a while BMI’s website wouldn’t let you book hotel redemptions online either, this might be ok now.

As many contributors have said, BMI used to be a competitor of BA both on short haul route network, frequency and service all round – many of my colleagues proudly wore their Diamond Club baggage tag.

Need a new thread here – this is just more free publicity for Sir Michael! (what, didn’t you hear?…)

[Author]

Posts